memorials

At the Levashovo mass grave site outside Russia’s northern capital, there are nearly two dozen separate memorials for various groups of victims of dictator Josef Stalin’s Great Terror…One of the Levashovo stones features two hands reaching up from a prison cell toward the light, with the words: “To the eternal memory of the deaf-mute victims of political repression — 1937.”

In spite of repeated requests for clarification, Russia continues to withhold key information about an unidentified "Prisoner no.7", who was questioned in Lubyanka Prison together with Raoul Wallenberg's driver Vilmos… ∞

History lessons about Josef Stalin's campaign of repression are dangerous to the health of students, Russian authorities have concluded. Andrei Suslov, a history professor at Perm State University in western… ∞